Word
Las latas tienen carne congelada.
Meaning
The cans have frozen meat.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Las latas tienen carne congelada.
tener
to have
la carne
meat
congelar
to freeze
la lata
the can / the tin
Questions & Answers about Las latas tienen carne congelada.
Where does the word congelada come from?
It comes from the regular verb congelar (to freeze). To make the past participle for an -ar verb, you drop the -ar and add -ado. This gives us the base form congelado.
Why does it end in -a (congelada) if the regular past participle ending is -ado?
When you use a past participle as an adjective to describe a noun, it has to match that noun's gender (masculine/feminine) and number (singular/plural). Here it is describing carne, which is a feminine singular noun, so congelado changes to congelada.
Is carne a feminine word even though it ends in -e?
Why don't we need the word la before carne?